Fire and Ice
by Julie Garwood
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Author: Julie GarwoodEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-12-29
ISBN: 0345500768
Number of pages: 400
Publisher: Ballantine Books
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Book Review: Not especially fiery
Summary: 3 Stars
I've really liked several of Julie Garwood's previous books so was looking forward to this one when I opened its pages. However I did find this story something of a disappointment, although I'm not entirely clear why.
Our heroine, Sophie Rose, is a reporter at a Chicago newspaper. Her father is a big-time thief, a kind of modern Robin Hood, and people are always trying to get Sophie to inform on him - which she refuses to do. When she meets Jack MacAlister from the FBI she's afraid he'll also be after information on her father but in fact he wants to help protect her when it becomes clear her life is in danger.
Jack and Sophie find themselves travelling to Alaska to follow a lead in a mysterious death of a 5k runner that Sophie had interviewed. But the danger may also have moved to Prudhoe Bay from Chicago and Sophie and Jack may need to rely on each other to keep safe and to uncover the mystery.
The first thing to say about this book was that, as an Englishwoman unused to guns, Jack seemed to shoot rather a lot of people through the course of the book. I think he finished off about ten people - which would, for example, be one-fifth of the entire gun deaths in the United Kingdom in one year. I'm glad he went to Alaska and not Britain as we wouldn't know what to do with a trigger-happy person like him! Putting that aside, I liked Sophie's tenacity in following the story about William Harrington the runner and her loyalty to her father, although I felt the author cheated a little in making him a Robin Hood character; he would have been more interesting if he were a proper 'baddie' and Sophie's loyalty was tested more strongly between family and 'right'.
The author does a reasonable job of explaining the cold of Alaska but I didn't feel totally convinced by it at all times and I didn't find the book particularly gripping. The short sections from the point of view of a scientist working up in Alaska I felt were also rather unnecessary and didn't add enough to the story.
Originally published for Curled Up With A Good Book © Helen Hancox 2011
Summary of Fire and Ice
Sophie Rose is a crime reporter at a major Chicago newspaper and the daughter of Bobby Rose, a charming gentleman and big-time thief. When asked to write an exposé about her notorious father, Sophie quits and goes to work at a small newspaper, covering local personalities such as William Harrington, the 5K runner whose trademark is red socks. Those socks?with Sophie?s business card tucked inside?are practically all that?s found after Harrington is killed near Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, seemingly in a brutal polar bear attack.
Sophie heads north to investigate, but danger follows in her wake. After one attempt on her life, she?s assigned brash but sexy Jack MacAlister as a bodyguard. But Sophie and Jack will soon be fighting more than their growing passion for each other. Powerful forces will stop at nothing to prevent the exposure of the sinister conspiracy Sophie and Jack are about to uncover.
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